Summary
Archer receives orders from Admiral Forrest to assist
T'Pol in a secret mission for the Vulcan High Command
by diverting from their course and taking her somewhere
without letting the rest of the crew in on the knowledge.
T'Pol asks Archer to accompany her in the shuttlepod,
as she wishes to be with someone she can trust. She was
once responsible for retrieving altered agents who refused
to return home to Vulcan. One agent, Menos, managed to
elude her and he has finally been found, and the Vulcan
High Command is allowing her the opportunity to capture
him this time, to make up for her failure of the last time.
Menos was originally an agent who was supposed to infiltrate
a group of smugglers, but became too attached to the profession
and according to the VHC, he now deals in biotoxins.
T'Pol, Archer and Mayweather arrive on an icy moon
and are able to take Menos into custody. However, they're
obliged to wait before departure, because the landing bay
has been treated with acid. Menos tries to work on T'Pol's
conscience by telling her that he will face an unpleasant
future back on Vulcan and that he only wishes to remain
with his family, and he plays the sympathy card by telling
her of his health problems, his body shows the effects
of hauling used warp injector casings for years. T'Pol
is unsettled; she begins to have flashbacks to the time
on Risa, when she was chasing after Menos. She finally
is so upset that she flees to Menos' ship to search
it herself, finding only the injector casings as he claimed.
She had more flashbacks, this time seeing another man and
she realizes that this was another agent that she shot,
and the incident so upset her, that she had to undergo
rehabilitation on Vulcan to suppress the memories.
She and Archer discuss this outside, when a commotion
occurs. It turns out that Menos was desperate enough to
escape, that he started a fire. T'Pol unlocks his
handcuffs but a falling ceiling beam allows Menos to escape.
He is found on board his ship, when Mayweather discovers
a hidden forcefield due to a strange amount of energy consumption.
He briefly escapes again, but with the support of Archer,
T'Pol is able this time to be strong enough to stun
him, and take him into custody. Meanwhile, Mayweather finds
out that Menos indeed did have biotoxins, so that the Vulcan
High Command was right. Menos is taken back to Enterprise
to be handed over to a Vulcan ship that will transport
him back to Vulcan, and T'Pol is grateful to Archer
for his support on this mission.
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